"Don't drink booze to stave off the cold, it's dangerous", warns Chiang Mai health chief

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"Don't drink booze to stave off the cold, it's dangerous", warns Chiang Mai health chief

 

Picture: Daily News

 

CHIANG MAI: -- The chief of Chiang Mai's health department has warned the drinking public that alcohol will not keep you warm. It's dangerous and may just kill you, reports Daily News.

 

The warning comes as temperatures in the north are plummeting with frost and zero degrees recorded in some hill areas like Doi Inthanon.

 

Dr Phuriwat Chokkert of the Chiang Mai department of health said that drinking alcohol was not a good idea for keeping warm. It could not keep you warm and could result in heart attack and death.

 

He also had some wise words for the elderly, the infirm and those looking after children to take especial care of their health and that of the kids during the cold season.

 

So for all those foreign pensioners in Chiang Mai who fancy a tipple - you have been warned. Stock up on blankets, not Ballantine's.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-11-23

[daveAustin]

It might not keep you warm, but it sure helps to stave off the cold. 

[Khun Paul]

100% proof Rum , vast quantities does help and keeps you warm, but keeping dry and out of the wind helps too. Plus good food.

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Khun Paul

[bark]

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

It might not keep you warm, but it sure helps to stave off the cold. 

If it did, then no one in the UK would ever get a cold.

[Bantex]

When is it cold in Thailand. I returned from the UK last week and there was snow on high ground and heavy frost in the mornings.

[Chicog]

That always cracks me up. Alcohol causes vasodilation which leads to faster heat loss.

But yet St. Bernard is always there to help trapped skiers?!

 

[Enoon]

 

Alcohol raises the skin temperature thus creating a feeling of warmth. The mechanism by which it does this draws heat away from the core of the body, which causes hypothermia, which kills you.

 

The heat on the skins surface also creates perspiration, the moisture chills rapidly which causes faster heat loss and speeds up the onset of hypothermia.

 

The loss of water through perspiration also leads to dehydration.

 

I learned these things while working with people who ran survival courses.

 

They told me the best use for a bottle of alcohol was to empty the alcohol on the ground and fill the bottle with whatever water I could find.

 

You can google to find out the techniques for conserving body heat and maintaining circulation in a survival situation.

 

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Enoon

[Enoon]

23 minutes ago, Chicog said:

That always cracks me up. Alcohol causes vasodilation which leads to faster heat loss.

But yet St. Bernard is always there to help trapped skiers?!

 

 

Great St Bernard Hospice - Wikipedia

"The attachment to their collar of small casks containing brandy appears to be a 19th-century myth.^[1]

The last recorded rescue by one of the dogs was in 1955, although as late as 2004 eighteen of the animals were still kept at the Hospice for reasons of sentiment and tradition."

 

Google search: "st bernard barrel"

People also ask:

Why do St Bernards have a barrel?

What were St Bernards bred for?

How much does a St Bernard weigh?

Do St Bernards carry alcohol?

The monks of the St. Bernard Hospice deny that any St. Bernard has ever carried casks or small barrels around their necks; they attribute the image to an 1820 painting by Edwin Landseer, perhaps Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler (which became a popular engraving in 1831 by Charles Landseer).

 

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Enoon

[wotsdermatter]

This is not new or news.  Rather, such statements have been broadcast in media for decades in the west.  If Thais find this to be "new" information, where have they been hiding their inability to uncover/except such information?  It seems as if Thais announce such items as if they are real news but they are so far out of date with many things that it seems they will never catch up with the rest of the world.  

Edited November 23, 2016 by wotsdermatter

[Beats56]

Thais are not use to cold weather. but coming from a cold climate in Canada

..only in the winter and hot in the summer we had seasonal clothes for all the seasons.  I can understand why they have a hard time with this.

[Chicog]

My survival instructor said that if your mate has hypothermia, a good way to get them warm was to "fiddle with their bits".

So, please note that if you have hypothermia next to me, you're doomed. Unless you're a woman, in which case you have an excellent chance of surviving.

 

[chriswallace2014]

Thailand never gets cold!!! Try Norway in winter -20 that's cold, when in Thailand (regularly) and is "Thai cold" I'm there still sporting shorts and vest ?

[mrfill]

10 hours ago, Khun Paul said:

100% proof Rum , vast quantities does help and keeps you warm, but keeping dry and out of the wind helps too. Plus good food.

 

 

Proof doesn't work as a %age. 175 proof is pure alcohol. Try vast quantities of that and it will keep you very warm (as they light the fire beneath your corpse) - it is very poisonous. The highest strength spirit to drink will be around 75-80% alcohol (140 proof) found in Slivowitz  and some Bajun rums (other more revolting possibilities are available).

[bangon04]

Time to give out the free blankets again in northern Thailand.  Strange that none survives from last year.. or are they the same ones being pawned and resold to the government? No, silly idea....

[gemini81]

You do it to stave-off a hangover, hair of the dog- not the cold.

[sharktooth]

13 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

Great St Bernard Hospice - Wikipedia

"The attachment to their collar of small casks containing brandy appears to be a 19th-century myth.^[1]

The last recorded rescue by one of the dogs was in 1955, although as late as 2004 eighteen of the animals were still kept at the Hospice for reasons of sentiment and tradition."

 

Google search: "st bernard barrel"

People also ask:

Why do St Bernards have a barrel?

What were St Bernards bred for?

How much does a St Bernard weigh?

Do St Bernards carry alcohol?

The monks of the St. Bernard Hospice deny that any St. Bernard has ever carried casks or small barrels around their necks; they attribute the image to an 1820 painting by Edwin Landseer, perhaps Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler (which became a popular engraving in 1831 by Charles Landseer).

 

 

 

You just had to go and spoil it for everyone hadn't you...

[maewang99]

I'm always confused by this.... they mean the little blue bottles we call "rubbing alcohol" or.....

the more ubiquitous stuff that's bottled with a few droplets or so of some kind of hops flavored sludge plus yellow coloring of some kind???

very confusing for me especially when it's a nurse that asks this at the Maharrat clinic... cause I think of the blue colored stuff first. Not the other stuff with a bottle label that is more expensive to make than what's inside.  and if you drink it warm.... you'll have wanted to be drinking the blue stuff instead.   
 

Edited November 24, 2016 by maewang99

[IMA_FARANG]

Your body uses food nutrients in your cells to generate energy and keep your body warm.

Alchofol  drunk in large amounts inerferes with  those recepteors in your cells that allow your sells to take in those nutrients from food by blocking the recdptors that allow nutients to enter yoyr cells.

That is precisely why when you drink to much Alchohol, the next motning you hsve a "hangover" because your body has a hard time removing the Alchohol from those receptors and therefore your body cells are low on nutrients because they can't get the nutients they need to generate heat.

In cold weather Alchhool may at first seem to "warm your blood". but as your body cells need to use energy to remove the Alchohol molecules from those recepors your body needs more energy to remove Alchol than is generated by the Alchohol molecules can provide your body is on a doenhill slide when you drink Alchohol, it uses more energy to expel the Alchohol than it gets from Alchhol.

So if you drink more Alchhol in cold weather, it lowers the amount of hest your body generates, and you will fel colder the more Alchohol you drink.

.

 

[opalred]

i went once to ice hotel Lapland

with wind chill minus 40  

vodka only thing to keep you warm

look at the Russians drink vodka then sleep in the snow

[Jeremy50]

Never ceases to amaze me when Thais start to talk about the 'cold'.   It seems that low humidity, or dry air equals 'cold' to many, even though temperatures are still in the 20's.

[madusa]

On 23/11/2016 at 1:14 AM, Chicog said:

My survival instructor said that if your mate has hypothermia, a good way to get them warm was to "fiddle with their bits".

So, please note that if you have hypothermia next to me, you're doomed. Unless you're a woman, in which case you have an excellent chance of surviving.

 

I couldn't figure out what are "their bits" Is this a slang? You mean "tits"?

I guess it must be tits.

[surangw]

yeh, buy the  medicine from the chinese pharmacy that has both codine and  alcahol in it